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Reactions seem divided into two camps. One camp is having a great laugh at the stupidity of the users – after all, how could they look at a page with a red masthead, titled “ReadWriteWeb”, featuring a news article, and think they were on the Facebook login page? How could they be smart enough to figure out how to leave a comment, but too dumb to know what site they were on? The other camp, for example an article from blogger Funkatron called We’re the stupid ones is pointing the finger at the software world for assuming that everyone knows as much about computers as we do, and more specifically at Google – after all, isn’t this in some way Google’s screw-up for returning the wrong result?

ObPwd est une méthode simple et originale permettant de générer (hashing) des mot de passe de qualité en passant par des données numériques faciles à retenir : images, texte, URL, etc. L'auteur livre plusieurs prototypes d'applications dont une extension Firefox.

Dans Firefox 3, on peut taper les noms de fichiers et chemins dans l'URL avec leurs accents, ou bien dans des langues utilisant un alphabet différent (l'arabe par exemple)

Although the specification of the HTTP protocol does not specify any maximum length, practical limits are imposed by web browser and server software.

"Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. [...]"

Greasemonkey script which allows people to create URLs which link to content within a page without having control over that page.

chrome:// urls

if you copy a URL wrapped over multiple lines from somewhere and try to paste it into the address bar, you will end up only with the first line of it. To fix it, go to about:config and change editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines setting to 3

This extension brings the functionality of tinyurl.com closer to your fingertips. It will convert a long URL into a small, more managable one which is easier to share through email and instant messanger. This feature is useable from the Tools menu or as a Toolbar Element (Firefox).